From containment to commerce? Trump is said to make arms sales pitch to Xi

TOI correspondent from Washington: MAGA supremo Donald Trump has spent much of his presidency telling allies and partners, including India, to buy more American weapons. At his meeting with Xi Jinping, America’s top arms salesman apparently decided to extend the same customer-service offer to Washington’s principal military rival, China.In a jaw-dropping disclosure, a fall-out from which American mandarins are scrambling to contain, US ambassador to China David Perdue has revealed that President Trump offered to sell arms to China, since Washington sold weapons to many other countries around the world.